Covid-19: Note of hope as limits eased for Christmas

Taoiseach Micheál Martin during a press conference at Government Buildings after he addressed the nation on exiting from Level 5. Picture: Julien Behal

Families will be allowed to travel home and gather together for Christmas as the Government has taken a "calculated risk" in easing Covid-19 restrictions.

Shops, hairdressers, churches, gyms, museums, and cinemas will all reopen from Tuesday, December 1, under a multi-phase plan to ease restrictions on the economy and society.